I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to tune yourself in with the seasons, celebrate them and connect to the universe through them. Interestingly enough, we used to have 10 months, and with Spring the new year was March 1 as the beginning. The Romans added July after Julius Caesar and August after Augustus, so the seventh month as September, eighth as October, got skewed. The Gregorian calendar screws us all up, putting us out of synch with nature and time. So find ways to connect with the seasons! Start this spring! and then progress. That’s what we do here in Storytime Yoga, reconnect to the ancient rites with a modern update!
I’ve always felt the new year begins in Spring! So we made our own celebration, without any church. Yoga centered, of course! We loaded up on chocolate, and we read my E-book Dragon Mother Awakens (available in the Mythic Yoga Store) to celebrate eternal life within. It was my yoga lesson to my kids that spring is the promise of eternal renewal and eternal life. The eternal cycle is present in duality, yet there is a transcendental reality behind it all.
We planted seeds, hit confetti-filled cascarones over our heads and those of neighbors. We had a spring cleanse drink (the kids were a hard sell on it, even though it’s just juiced celery, carrot and orange.) We cleaned house, cooked eggs, dyed them and had an egg hunt. By night time we made a fire, with offerings of chocolate, cinnamon and cloves that were thrown in after each meditation and wish. My children were elated, and this experience produced a psychological shift that one is renewed. Things are fresh, possible, exciting. Not just this monotonous drone of capitalism and time that we are fed every day. Just participating in the simplest of things – family, children, the seasons, nature will help you get off anti-depressants in no time, as a relationship to the cosmos, to each other, and to our eternal life, is what we are all seeking and we only have to realize it.
Teach this to children! Celebrate with them, tell stories.
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